Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Cuckmere House School is the nearest published school at 2.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN20 0AW
South Downs · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Eastbourne
- Ward
- South Downs
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Lewes
- Postcode district
- BN20
- Postcode sector
- BN20 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN20 0AW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN20
- Postcode sector
- BN20 0
- Latitude
- 50.765690
- Longitude
- 0.188958
- British National Grid easting
- 554,462
- British National Grid northing
- 98,518
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- South Downs · E05011658
- Parish or community
- E04003838
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107527
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 018C · E01021166
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 018 · E02004420
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BN20
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Friston Down, Friston Place, Friston, Eastbourne, BN20 0AW | 20 September 1996 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.3 km
Cuckmere House School
Academy special converter
- 4.5 km
Pashley Down Infant School
Community school
- 4.7 km
The South Downs School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 32
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Public order 4
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Drugs 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- BN20 0 residents
- 1,613
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in BN20 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 9.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 47.2%
116 residents
107 residents
151 residents
473 residents
756 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BN20 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
153A VICTORIA DRIVE, EASTBOURNE, BN20 8NH
ODS code G81032
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Gayles Farm
BCT · Friston
- 0.3 miles
Gayles Farm
BCT · Friston
- 0.5 miles
St Mary the Virgin Church
BCT · Friston
- 0.5 miles
Windmill Lane
BCT · Friston
- 0.5 miles
St Mary the Virgin Church
BCT · Friston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 018C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,329 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
32 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.